Robert De Niro Set for Dark Fields

Robert De Niro is set to star opposite Bradley Cooper in Relativity Media’s thriller Dark Fields.

The story centers on a down-and-out New York writer (Cooper) who comes into possession of a designer drug that gives him newfound intelligence and success. De Niro will play a brilliant financial mogul who begins pursuing Cooper’s character.

Neil Burger will direct the Universal release. Based on a novel by Alan Glynn, the film’s script was written by Leslie Dixon.